submissionistn.adj.
/səbˈmɪʃnɪst/, U.S. /səbˈmɪʃənəst/ Chiefly depreciative. Now chiefly historical.
A person who advocates submission or compromise; spec. (U.S. History, in the period preceding the American Civil War) a person from the Southern states willing to relinquish sovereignty in order to remain in the Union. Also attributive or as adj.The spec. use of the term was used esp. by southern secessionists.
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submissionist1823
1823 New Monthly Mag. (U.S. ed.) 6 566 Found at length that they were talking of two distinct people, Mr. Pob-joy alluding to the submissionists at Cadiz.
1832 Mem. of Nullifier xi. 107 He was possessed of an eloquence scarcely surpassed by that of his ancestor, the famous orator of Virginia, and which seemed sufficient to animate any heart, except that of a submissionist.
1861 O. W. Holmes Let. 16 Feb. in J. L. Motley Corr. (1889) I. xiii. 360 The Hunker, or Submissionist, or whatever you choose to call the wretch who would sacrifice everything and beg the South's pardon for offending it.
1906 Contemp. Rev. July 118 Those organs which carried on a violent campaign against the submissionists.
1922 Glasgow Herald 5 Oct. 6/3 It would, of course, greatly simplify the task of the submissionist element in Greece if some adequate guarantee could be devised for the safety of the Christian and refugee populations.
1977 C. Eaton Jefferson Davis xii. 123 Fear of being called 'submissionists', or traitors to the South.
2007 J. M. Sacher Perfect War of Politics 292 Louisiana cooperationists faced a difficult task. Branded as submissionists, they struggled to explain how their position provided better protection for southern liberty than secession did.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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